The history of Australia: the twentieth century, 1901-1975

From inside the book

Results 1-3 of 97

Page 7In the year 1900 the British Parliament passed an Act establishing the six
Australian colonies as States of 'one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under
the Crown of the United Kingdom'. The States retained their own parliaments and
all ...

Page 29LEGISLATION AND WHITE AUSTRALIA The first Commonwealth Parliament was
probably of a higher calibre than any that have succeeded it. The prestige of the
first national Parliament attracted to it many of the best men from the State ...

Page 72Lord Kitchener, to visit the Commonwealth to report on the state of its defence
forces. ... From the end of 1910 the Commonwealth Parliament was free, under
the clause, to determine without reference to the States what moneys, if any, it
should ...